timen
See also: timën
Danish
Noun
timen c sg
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
timen (third-person singular simple present timt or timet, past tense timte or timete, past participle getimt or getimet or getimed, auxiliary haben)
- to time (e.g. with a stopwatch)
Usage notes
- Inflected forms except timen (infinitive; 1. and 3. person plural indicative present active) and the past participle might be rare, at least in writing.
- In the forms with stem time- (er timet, er timete, er hatte getimet or getimed) the e often is silent (as in timet, timete, getimet) but sometimes it's not (as in timen).
- The forms with stem time- are proscribed.
Related terms
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English tēmen.
Verb
timen
- Alternative form of temen (“to give birth, to support”)
Etymology 2
From Old English tīmian, from Proto-Germanic *tīmōną.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
timen
- To take place; to come to pass.
- To experience life or happenings.
- To select when something happens.
Conjugation
Conjugation of timen (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
- English: time
References
- “tīmen (v.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
timen m sg
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
timen m sg
Spanish
Verb
timen
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